On a chilly evening last March in Flint, Michigan, LeeAnne Walters was getting ready for bed when she heard her daughter shriek from the bathroom … Mother who helped expose Flint’s toxic water nightmareRead more
Economics
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Money and Banking
I struggled a few years to get a Money and Banking (M&B) course together. It lacked coherency and students had difficulty linking the different parts … Money and BankingRead more
Posted inEconomics / Road / ToMl / Transportation / USA Empire
Twelve of the Worst Highway Projects Across US Wasted $24 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars
A new study by the United States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Education Fund and Frontier Group identifies 12 of the most wasteful highway … Twelve of the Worst Highway Projects Across US Wasted $24 Billion in Taxpayer DollarsRead more
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U.S. Solar Created More Jobs Than Oil And Gas Extraction
Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by … U.S. Solar Created More Jobs Than Oil And Gas ExtractionRead more
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62 people own the same as half the world
The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion … 62 people own the same as half the worldRead more
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Rockefeller price gouging returns to petroleum industry
Next time you fill your gas tank, the price will likely be inflated by a few pennies per gallon because the sightless sheriffs at the … Rockefeller price gouging returns to petroleum industryRead more
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How democracy in the middle east ended
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Another Pharma Giant Hikes Drug Prices
Former pharma CEO Martin Shkreli, widely reviled for dramatically hiking the price of a life-saving drug used by HIV and cancer patients, is in good … Another Pharma Giant Hikes Drug PricesRead more
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Profiting from Misery
A damning new report issued Tuesday accuses Apple, Samsung, Sony, and Volkswagen, among other major multinational corporations, of failing to do basic checks to ensure … Profiting from MiseryRead more
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The Little-Known Reason Renewable Prices Are Dropping
Plummeting costs for renewable energy have finally made solar and wind a viable alternative to fossil fuels. But what’s responsible for the drop in price? … The Little-Known Reason Renewable Prices Are DroppingRead more